Michael Collins once told Neil Armstrong, when pondering his first words on the moon:
“If you had any balls, you’d yell ‘What the hell is that?!’ then cut your mic.”
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Goddamnit I love Eddie Izzard.
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Of course. He’s a Palace fan.
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One of the best for sure. I used to listen to him while on the Park’n’Ride and was kind of embarrassed to be laughing so much by myself in my seat. Him and the old Ricky Gervais XM podcast. Too bad ol’Ricky went MAGA.
Gary Gulman is one of my new faves. His monologue on the state abbreviations is hilarious, like everything he does really.
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Ricky Gervais went MAGA?
His latest show on Netflix opens with a nasty take on trans people that rendered the rest of it unwatchable. I don’t know if he went all MAGA for real but his usual sort of offensive banter went really nasty.
I get Ricky’s schtick is being mean.
That particular routine shades more to being an asshole.
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Yeah. Gervais didn’t “go MAGA”, but he has built a not insignificant library of transphobic “jokes” and comments, which is a problem.
His humor has always been brutal, but it was honest and he didn’t punch down. His anti-trans crap isn’t honest and it isn’t funny; it sounds like it was lifted from a Reddit thread.
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This made me laugh.
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This is fine.
You have to take those near-shore sensors with a grain of salt. They have a well-understood high bias due to things like land interference on the sensor and organic matter getting entrained in the sensor. That’s why NCEI excludes them from their Ocean Temp GIS. They provide useful info, for sure, but the data would never be used in something like numerical weather prediction and would likely never be counted as a record for anything.
Here’s an interesting read on the important work to build automated space and terrestrial-based observing systems for SST’s. This type of work was exactly analogous to much of the research work I did in the first half of my career.
(Sorry, can’t share a .pdf here so here’s a link:)
0127_Hu_etal_TGRS_2009.pdf
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You are bounded and determined to ruin Limey’s fantasy of Florida being one giant hillbilly hot tub, aren’t you?
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Ha. It is indeed a calamitous tragedy for corals and the like. And, intellectually interesting. It’s interesting to me to see how the non-scientific community internalizes events like this. I’m also assuming some might be interested in how the scientific community reacts as well.
C’mon man, it’s 2023. Feelings over facts.
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As we learn to ignore live with a deadly virus that has covered the globe, the existence of aliens has been confirmed by testimony to congress, wild fires rage across much of the planet, AI is smarter than us and the Gulf Stream is about to shut down…
…we’re basically living in every global disaster movie ever made.
The predictions that it could collapse as early as 2025 or by 2095 should be taken with a large grain of salt, says Jon Robson at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading.
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And the aliens lunatic should be taken with an ocean’s worth. And AI can’t figure out how to do much of anything yet. And the US is back down to zero or negative excess deaths for basically the first time since the pandemic started. But aside from that…
The idea that there is not alien life out there is pretty much mathematically and scientifically laughable. It’s pretty well impossible that there is not. That doesn’t mean we’re living in Star Trek, however.